It is no uncommon thing for the Lord’s children to be troubled by a malady whose very cause lies hidden from their own understanding. The inner left leg pains you, and you know not why, this is a small picture of larger spiritual mysteries. But do you not see that even here, the unknown is an invitation to lean more heavily upon the arm that never fails? When nothing else is left you, God remains and God appears. It is He that healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds; and His skill is not limited to those wounds we can name, for He understands the secret springs of our affliction better than we know ourselves.
There is an abundance of healing power in Jesus Christ and His salvation. The very leaves of that heavenly tree are for the healing of the nations, which teaches us that the least things about Christ are full of healing virtue. If you would have this leg made whole, look not first to the physician’s art, but to the great Physician Himself. His power to heal is most manifest when He is teaching, and faith cometh by hearing the Word of God. Sit often at His feet, that while He instructs your soul, a blessed cure may steal upon your body also. And remember, dear heart, that the Lord doth often join pardon and healing together. The same word that spake forgiveness to the palsied man gave strength to his limbs. Seek first, then, a fresh sense of His forgiving grace, and it may be the healing shall follow as the morning follows the night.
You say you do not know what is going on in that limb. That is well; for if we knew all, we should be tempted to trust in our own understanding. Now you must trust in Him who knows what we know not. Pray with that holy boldness which says, “Lord, I cannot tell what evil lurks within, but Thou canst heal it, for with Thee nothing is unknown.” His skill is not like the army surgeon’s, hasty and rough; He cometh gently and sympathisingly, touching the sore place with a hand that never caused a needless pang. The Sun of Righteousness hath risen with healing in His wings; let His beams fall upon your infirmity.
Yet I must press this further: that a pain in the body is often a gracious signal from the soul’s watchman. Many a man hath found his way to the Saviour because some bodily ill would not let him rest. If this unknown ache should prove to be the messenger that drives you closer to the cross, it will be a severe mercy indeed. Welcome, then, both forgiveness and healing through our Lord Jesus. The power is present with Him now; the time is an accepted time. Cry to Him who heareth the sighing of the prisoner, and who looseth the bands of Orion, and He will not despise your cry. Go in peace, and expect His work to be done, whether by a gradual restoring or by an instantaneous word, it is all one to Him who calleth the things that are not as though they were.